Singapore legislation

Clause 17

Public inspection of annual reports, etc.

(1)

Any annual report or other document kept by the Commissioner in pursuance of section 16(5) shall be open to public inspection at all reasonable times —

(a)

during the period for which it is so kept; or

(b)

if the Commissioner so determines, during such lesser period as he may specify.

(2)

Where any interested person —

(a)

requests the charity trustees of a charity in writing to provide him with a copy of the charity’s most recent accounts; and

(b)

pays the charity trustees such reasonable fee (if any) as they may require in respect of the costs of complying with the request,those trustees shall comply with the request within the period of two months beginning with the date on which the request is made.

(3)

In subsection (2), the reference to a charity’s most recent accounts shall be —

(a)

a reference to the statement of accounts or account and statement prepared in pursuance of section 13(1) or (3) in respect of the last financial year of the charity the accounts for which have been audited or examined under section 14; and

(b)

in the case of a charity which is a company, a reference to the annual accounts of the company most recently audited under Part VI of the Companies Act [Cap. 50].

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